Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Unquestionably Good Pumpkin Bread

Once upon a time, I was a fashion designer, and I worked for a man with very questionable ethics. He also employed some other men with very questionable ethics. The first year I worked there, one of the questionable men came into the design room with packages for all of us. For the most part, my rule is beware of questionable men bearing gifts, however once I (well, all of us who were working in the design room) opened the package, we forgot about his questionable traits...for a little while....

...for inside this package was some of the most divine pumpkin bread I have ever eaten. Truly spectacular....so much so that this incident happened 15 years ago and I still make this bread regularly (I think about the source of the recipe as little as possible). So, since I am very into pumpkins and we all have to eat, I thought I would share it.

This recipe makes a ton (not literally, duh!) of bread or muffins. It is a great recipe for bake sales, teacher appreciation days, and other big group events. Now, if you read the story, you know this recipe did not originate with me. I have the original recipe this man gave me, but have no idea where he got it from. So, there you have it...he cannot come after me anyway... his questionable ways caught up to him!

Unquestionably Good Pumpkin Bread
Combine:
3 cups sugar (the original calls for 4 1/2, but I reduced it to 3 and don't notice a difference in taste)
1 1/2 cups unsweetened applesauce or oil (use the applesauce, I do!)
6 eggs or equivalent egg substitute
Beat above well...
Add 1 cup water
Beat again

Last time I made this, I yielded 2 large loaves, 4 mini loaves, and 2 1/2 dozen muffins.

NOTE: I am very "into" making recipes healthier...but have not tried using any other sugar substitutes or flour substitutes (I think brown rice flour would work well)...maybe later....for now, I am just enjoying some Unquestionably Good Pumpkin Bread and hope you do too!

Enjoy!
Holly

P.S. You may notice I use Jules's photo in (probably) way too many posts, but she is there and a good prop and Joe doesn't like taking pictures!

30 comments:

FANTASTICI!!!!!!Oh, This story and THIS recipe of sweet Pumkin Cake reminds me so much of my time i spend in NY such a long time ago.....!The Lady of the house did bake some cake like this; I still have the recipe....it's almost the same!!!!Wonderful remembering...!Have a great day!elvira(and if I go and get some Pumkin....)

Yum! Sounds delish, I can almost smell it! As far as your little pumpkin goes- I understand! Baby girl is always ready willing and able to pose for a picture, the others? Not so much!She looks like a doll!

I looove pumpkin bread. Unfortunately I had to give up sugar because I kind of sort of have an addiction to it and eat waaaaay too much and can never stop and yeah... well... you can start seeing it ON me. I've tried other breads and muffins with honey... I just might have to try out some pumpkin bread this year... because I miss it. :(

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